From DOGE to USAID: Are Trump’s Executive Actions Legal? | Amanpour and Company
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- What are the legal implications of the signing spree of executive orders by President Trump? Gillian Metzger is a constitutional law professor at Columbia Law School and served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General under President Joe Biden. Metzger joins Walter Isaacson to decipher the actions we've seen so far … and discuss what might be next.
Originally aired on February 6, 2025
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My mother has worked on delivery projects all over the world, many of whom were funded by USAID. She always made sure projects spent the US money first because it's always the most, but it's also the fastest to be given away. Many of these projects follow formulas to keep administration spending at less than 10%, so these funds were not routinely wasted. By all means, if you want to go after the gravy train perks of some of these agencies, like business class flights for staff, have at it, but to shut these agencies down entirely, are just outrageous. These are projects helping the poorest of the poor, being shutdown by the richest man on earth. Isn't there something truly astounding about that?
I think the anger is more about the us government not doing enough for its own citizens. Almost 800k homeless and you are spending money on sesame street in another country.
That's unacceptable. We have major problems here, and they are always looking to tax us more.
Who is deciding these projects also? Apparently, it's not Congress, the president, or the American people.
An unelected bureaucrat? So, an unelected bureaucrat can choose how to spend the money, but when an unelected bureaucrat exposes what the money is spent, it's unconstitutional. Sounds like corruption to me.
Did she also give away millions to terrorist linked groups?
@@jonnyrockets7900how much of the money they are now not spending in those programs are going to be spent on the homeless in the USA? Or other programs that help poor people in the USA? Sounds like they are being cut also. Republicans are not usually the ones to spend money in that way
This lawyer is really giving me vital information on how our U.S. executive system works. I don’t think Trump has a clue on how the system .
Yiur listening to a fool
He doesn’t care
Does it matter? He knows how to bend and break the rules, and have the whole republican party on their knees bowing in front of him, and possibly Supreme Court too..All these sound bites are useless unless they can stop his carnage of American democracy
What was the felon signing there with the kids? No free school lunches???!!!
Well, you can call him a felon, but the felons are all gonna be on the democratic side. He actually was signing for all those girls. A law that says that boys or men cannot be in their locker rooms and there
Sports and their bathrooms, which eighty percent of the country wanted, hence the reason trump was elected.
Handmaids EO.
Banning males in female sports.
Great job, Gillian Metzger.
As one of Trump's aides said, in relation DOGE, the courts 'might' stop us, but by that time, we'll have done what we needed, so legal action is irrelavent to us anyway.
Nero kept fiddling while Rome burned. As our country collapses, we're sitting around trying to figure out why it's collapsing.
Oligarchs on Wall Street don't get to decide how government money is spent.
Congress has been embarrassing, very appalling that nobody is going to jail 😅😅😅
Have you ever asked the question: was USAID funding of terrorist front organizations across the globe legal?
Probably wouldn’t be legal, but probably not an issue because it probably never happened
OK, judicial branch says stop and donnie ignores it?
Unite with Open Minds. A Parting of the Greed Sea. Let this People Go🗽
Is there more to being President than signing executive orders? I suggest you buy stock in Newell Brands. They own the company that makes Sharpies.
Ooof. This interview was hard to watch.
It's a microcosm of why the Democratic Party keeps losing
This guest is clearly very smart and knowledgeable about her field, yet she wastes so much time on playing SAT word bingo to show off her vocabulary and intellect that her statements are incredibly hard to follow and miss the mark.
One of the hallmarks of true intelligence is the ability to explain complicated topics in a plain-spoken relatable way so people can understand and follow along.
I worked in DC during Clinton's presidency and while he had many faults, I saw first-hand how skilled he was at communicating complex topics in plain English.
We need to think hard about why we strayed away from that.
What she's saying in Clinton's words is "that dog won't hunt no more."
Dems are too bureaucratic. Most Americans like the way "Donald tells it like it is" in a 5th grade vocabulary.
This is Amanpour & Company. Not a prime time election debate. She's a constitutional lawyer and speaks as such.
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Only stupid people 🤡
The Fall of the Roman/ American Empire!
I'm guessing if the Supreme Court said he can do whatever he wants. This conversation is a complete waste of time.
They just said he has immunity from prosecution. That doesn't mean his illegal decisions will stand.
@@ginzo666you have to prove treason. No allegations absolute proof!
The SCOTUS didn’t say he can do whatever he wants because that would be UNCONSTITUTIONAL since Congress still has the Constitutional power to impeach a President for high crimes and misdemeanors. The SCOTUS basically indicated that the President is above the law, but they never said a President is above the Constitution, which is different from a law. Congress can and will IMPEACH Trump for violating the Constitution (separation of powers, exceeding Presidential authority, and TREASON by giving Elon Musk, a potential spy, access to secret & classified U.S. info) if Democrats regain power in January 2027. Also, some former federal judges have said Trump pardoning the January 6th rioters probably violated the Constitution because insurrection is a Constitutional offense, not just a broken law.
The Supreme Court also once said Blacks can't be citizens. Let's just all roll over and play dead.
Can you trust the supreme court, though?
He was elected to do this idiot.
The world does not need US aid. There are many rich countries that can surely fill the gap, aren’t there?? Why is it that the world needs to rely on the US? Let’s sideline the US and restrict them to their borders.
You don't seem to know how rich the US is
Have you guys not figure out that they are above the law?
They are a law unto themselves
So boring blah blah blah
No wonder Dumpster got elected with people like you
I think the anger is more about the us government not doing enough for its own citizens. Almost 800k homeless and you are spending money on sesame street in another country.
That's unacceptable. We have major problems here, and they are always looking to tax us more.
Who is deciding these projects also? Apparently, it's not Congress, the president, or the American people.
An unelected bureaucrat? So, an unelected bureaucrat can choose how to spend the money, but when an unelected bureaucrat exposes what the money is spent, it's unconstitutional.
Sounds like corruption to me.
.......what's been exposed? I've seen no proof of any corruption anywhere, but lots of accusations. For that matter, Musk is not a bureaucrat. He's an oligarch. This may shock you, but there were offices that rooted our fraud and corruption in our government agencies; inspectors general. So, if it were "wasteful" to use money to export Sesame Street, it would've been found.
Also, can you explain to me how the largest government contractor, a guy who made most of his fortune from government contracts, isn't going to use his current power to enrich himself and not limit competitors ability to get contracts?
Reduce the military spending then
@@chasmcd4123it’s true, a small amount of the military money could do so much for so many, and we’d still have the most powerful military ever in the entire world
Wow. I pity anyone studying law at Columbia with professors like that. She doesn’t even understand constitutional law.
There’s no real pushback? Walter! Shame on you!!!
How much money from USAID did this channel receive?
This content sucks, completely out of date and quite biased.
How so; you have a problem between facts and opinion and how to judge it